November 2022
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Adivasis are just like everyone else…sort of…but not
A short, step-by-step model of where India’s Adivasis come from, from the end of the Ice Age onwards, written to clarify an earlier post.
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Browncast with J Sai Deepak
In a BrownCast episode, Nachiketa talks with J Sai Deepak in a free-flowing, loosely structured discussion; he says afterwards that he could have intervened more on some points and hopes…
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Adivasis are not really more indigenous than most other Indians; they are marginalized
Razib Khan argues that Adivasis are no more indigenous than most other Indians, since populations mixed between about 4000 BC and AD 1, and that what sets them apart is…
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Hinduism will die, and Hinduism will live
Razib Khan answers Hindus who lament their religion’s weakness, arguing that 1.2 billion adherents and great internal variation make extinction implausible, that jati-varna’s flexibility helped Hinduism survive Islam, and that…
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What is Islamophobia?
Razib Khan argues that traditional family and cultural systems can mask depravity, citing suppressed evidence of sexual abuse in a UK community to avoid stereotypes, as at Rotherham, and adds…
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Pakistan 2022; Things fall apart?
In a BP Podcast, Omar Ali talks to Ambassador Kamran Shafi and Dr Mohammed Taqi about Pakistan’s political crisis, asking whether the army is falling apart or just having a…
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Pakistan Political Crisis
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Bangladesh and West Bengal genetics
Razib Khan reports more Bengali samples, finding Bengali Brahmins shifted as expected and Kayasthas not so genetically distinct from other Bengalis, so his working model is that they were peasants…
